DARWIN 'A' SERIES

[BGman]

Name your Aussie A squad for a dual format series against Sri Lanka in the Top End in July.

First Class:
Konstas
Dixon
Ward
McSweeney (c)
J Sangha
Hardie
Philippe
O'Neill
Bartlett
Morris
Roccho.

One Day only:
Johnson/Richardson
Owen
Cartwright
Harvey

 

[cats_09]

There was a squad preview named yesterday:

Meanwhile, national selectors are set to name 18-year-old Victorian batting prodigy Ollie Peake for an Australia A series against Sri Lanka A in Darwin in July.

Peake, who toured Sri Lanka with the Test squad as a development player, is set to feature in a weakened Australia A squad unlikely to include players currently having county stints in England.

It’s believed selectors will pick a more experienced Australia A squad for a tour of India later in the year.

Jason Sangha is likely to be rewarded for his Sheffield Shield heroics with South Australia with inclusion in the squad, alongside former Australian quick Billy Stanlake, Jake Weatherald, Campbell Kellaway, Liam Scott, Bryce Jackson, Mitch Perry, Nathan McSweeney and Henry Thornton.

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If they are are picking Peake them I am fine with Konstas and Dixon. I'd also then be picking a crop of their successful fellow U19 WC and Junior Ashes players, namely Charlie Anderson, Mahli Beardman, Raf MacMillan, Callum Vidler or Aidan O'Connor A/R), Lachlan Aitken or Ryan Hicks (w/k).

 

[Cleavy]

All five matches will be streamed live on cricket.com.au and Kayo Sports.

First one-day match: July 4, Marrara Cricket Ground, 2:30pm AEST (D/N)

Second one-day match: July 6, Marrara Cricket Ground, 10:30am AEST

Third one-day match: July 9, Marrara Cricket Ground, 10:30am AEST

First first-class match: July 13-16, Marrara Stadium, 10:30am AEST

Second-class match: July 20-23, Marrara Cricket Ground, 10:30am AEST

 

[BGman]

There was a squad preview named yesterday:

Behind a paywall for me.


Jason Sangha is likely to be rewarded for his Sheffield Shield heroics with South Australia with inclusion in the squad, alongside former Australian quick Billy Stanlake, Jake Weatherald, Campbell Kellaway, Liam Scott, Bryce Jackson, Mitch Perry, Nathan McSweeney and Henry Thornton.

The five in bold are a huge surprise. None I named from WC and Junior Ashes wins in '23. They are the future.

 

[big_e]

If they are are picking Peake them I am fine with Konstas and Dixon. I'd also then be picking a crop of their successful fellow U19 WC and Junior Ashes players, namely Charlie Anderson, Mahli Beardman, Raf MacMillan, Callum Vidler or Aidan O'Connor A/R), Lachlan Aitken or Ryan Hicks (w/k).

Konstas will be in the West Indies with the test squad.

 

[BGman]

Konstas will be in the West Indies with the test squad.

He will. Personally I'd like him to be eased into the series as I see him as still a touch mentally fragile after his sensational introduction to Test cricket and the resulting flack he copped when he failed to back it in further games. We have to not forget he is still only 19. From memory Ricky Ponting actually sat out an entire Windies tour at a similar age.

 

[big_e]

He will. Personally I'd like him to be eased into the series as I see him as still a touch mentally fragile after his sensational introduction to Test cricket and the resulting flack he copped when he failed to back it in further games. We have to not forget he is still only 19. From memory Ricky Ponting actually sat out an entire Windies tour at a similar age.

Ponting was first picked in an ODI when he was 20, and then in tests a week before he turned 21. He'd spent three years in first-class cricket prior to his test debut, with six shield centuries, almost 2,000 FC runs.

They rushed Konstas in and they've done him a disservice, IMO.

 

[Gough]

He will. Personally I'd like him to be eased into the series as I see him as still a touch mentally fragile after his sensational introduction to Test cricket and the resulting flack he copped when he failed to back it in further games. We have to not forget he is still only 19. From memory Ricky Ponting actually sat out an entire Windies tour at a similar age.

Toured in 1995 but didn't play a Test.

 

[BGman]

Toured in 1995 but didn't play a Test.

That is what I alluded to. Correct, he was 21, not 19 as Konstas will be in the Windies, turns 20 in October. He has tho already played international red ball cricket, '23 Junior Ashes (U19s). Dont recall our next gens playing a similar series back then, but I may have forgotten as is an age ago.

 

[big_e]

Australia Under 19s played a three-match series vs India Under-19s in 1995, matches in Melbourne, Sydney and Mount Gambier.

You can find every Youth Test played by Australia here:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/team/team-results-summary/australia-under-19s-284/under-19s-youth-test-matches-20?adobe_mc=TS=1748744788|MCMID=12048243337494348595384529652087504165|MCORGID=EE0201AC512D2BE80A490D4C@AdobeOrg

 

[Soups]

Stanlake is a rogue selection.

 

[Westend]

Morris Richo who have Aussie contracts ?

Rocho ?? Goodwin ??? Cartwright ?? Hardie ??

What is it bails a Wa free zone ??

 

[corbies]

Won't somebody please think of WA.

 

[Westend]

Won't somebody please think of WA.

or pick the best players who are available

why the F**k then give Morris Richo Cricket Australia contracts ??

I can understand the lads who have country deals ...but come on bails

 

[big_e]

or pick the best players who are available

why the F**k then give Morris Richo Cricket Australia contracts ??

I can understand the lads who have country deals ...but come on bails

Firstly, Bryce Jackson says hello.

Secondly, these games stopped being a genuine second XI decades ago. It's really not that big a deal.